Christmas Stories

1. K’s mother was a strange woman. She once told the young K she had arranged for her to take a job at a local chemist. She would start on Monday. When K arrived, the chemist knew nothing of it.

As K stood, crippled with uncertainty, he said, “All right then, I’ll put you on.”

2. When K was young, K’s mother sold their house, but arranged to for the new owners to take K as a boarder. K lived with them for several years before a school-friend’s mother took her in and became a defacto mother.

Some time later, K’s real mother found her on the street and whisked her away without telling anyone.